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Old Nov 12, 2025 | 9:20 pm
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Globalguy1
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25k or 35k with credit card is higher than 75k without credit card. Prince of Travel review of AC upgrade policies. Top buckets are the million milers, regards of CC.

I agree it is consultant math...And I agree with your take that the frequent fliers would be showing up more often...so less than 540k...But what are other ways we can build the model?

I used trusty new ChatGPT. There is no data in Canada...however, it extrapolated from American data:
  • ~10–20% of members are “frequent flyers” (multiple trips per year)
  • ~30–40% fly occasionally (1–2 trips)
  • ~40–60% fly not at all in a given year, but may earn via credit cards, hotels, gas, groceries, etc.

We'll back of envelope came close to what ChatGPT did over 20 minutes...
ChatGPTs breakdown of Aeroplan status levels based on USA numbers
ChatGPT's breakdown of Aeroplan status levels based on USA numbers
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